Police in New York have charged a woman after her 9-month-old baby was found crawling through the middle of a busy street.

WKTV reports police in Utica became aware of the incident after a video posted to Facebook went viral. The post racked up more than one million views in the first 12 hours after it was published.

According to a press release from the Utica Police Department, the video showed the infant crawling alone through the roadway as cars passed by. Several good Samaritans stopped to assist the child.

Police identified the child's mother as Ledrika E. Ford, 27. She told them that she returned for the baby after she looked to the back seat of the vehicle she was in and realized the child was not there.